By @nise_yoshimi. What a 🔥 summary of modern Anglo capitalism.
So much of the US' modern politics and problems, both domestic and foreign, are downstream of its reliance on finance and immigration to fuel the capitalist beast at home, and dominate and subvert the world abroad.
So much of the US' modern politics and problems, both domestic and foreign, are downstream of its reliance on finance and immigration to fuel the capitalist beast at home, and dominate and subvert the world abroad.
I think there is a direct line the from post-1965 INA to modern US identity controversies (eg wokeness).
The US was almost 90% white as late as the ‘70s, with blacks as the US’ literal only minority.
The US was almost 90% white as late as the ‘70s, with blacks as the US’ literal only minority.
Non-Western migrants were essentially non-existent until 1965, small sprinklings of say, Mexicans or Japanese aside.
And the US essentially had no large scale inward immigration for large parts of its history like 1925-1965.
And the US essentially had no large scale inward immigration for large parts of its history like 1925-1965.
The narrative itself of the US as a ‘nation of immigrants’ is not historically true, from this perspective.
Moreover, even the US immigration relationship with the rest of the world since then has led to devastating brain drain abroad, and increased social fracturing at home.
Moreover, even the US immigration relationship with the rest of the world since then has led to devastating brain drain abroad, and increased social fracturing at home.
What I think is happening in the US is that what is fundamentally a country founded as a WASP homeland is undergoing a fight for its soul as a result of these demographic changes causes by immigration.
And the US economy, now so utterly dependent on new immigrants to keep growing its productivity, is working at cross-purposes with having a harmonious and genuinely united social identity and order here domestically.
All the while, the US jealously hordes and protects its technology economy advantage, squashing any would be competitors.
One of the most powerful interpretations of the Cold War was that it was a US attempt to prevent any autonomous centers of economic power from forming.
Hence its containment of the Soviet Union and strangulation of 1980s-90s Japan.
Hence its containment of the Soviet Union and strangulation of 1980s-90s Japan.
Now though, the contradictions and saved-up problems of this Anglo capitalism model have come home to roost.
* Manufacturing is now in China.
* Denial of tech to China has planted the seeds for future evisceration of the US tech industry as the PRC pursues self reliance.
* The hamster on a treadmill reliance on infinite immigration has created explosive social fissures domestically.
* Denial of tech to China has planted the seeds for future evisceration of the US tech industry as the PRC pursues self reliance.
* The hamster on a treadmill reliance on infinite immigration has created explosive social fissures domestically.
* The PRC has engaged in iterative learning, and is now so integrated into the global economy, and retains enough of its own sovereignty, that it can’t be contained or coerced like the 1980s USSR or JPN
This is the ultimate problem for the US.
This is the ultimate problem for the US.
It is these historical processes that are driving China’s rise and a relative US decline.
Not because China now has more attack submarines or better guided bombs now than in the past or whatever.
Not because China now has more attack submarines or better guided bombs now than in the past or whatever.
Wow. I feel like I could write an entire essay on this.
What do you guys think?
Credit to @nise_yoshimi for inspiring this thread.
What do you guys think?
Credit to @nise_yoshimi for inspiring this thread.
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